"This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifyingthe key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to what foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities"--
This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities.
Bringing together two decades of work by the authors, this book shows how the concept of the dialogical network developed and outlines the key characteristics of dialogical networks, demonstrating the importance of historical contingency in our knowledge of them and highlighting the fact that ‘doing history’ is part of research.
1. Introduction
2. Reporting Political Arguments
3. Reflection 1: The
First Steps From Context Selection to Dialogical Networks
4. On the
Emergence of Political Identity in Czech Mass Media: The Case of Democratic
Party of Sudetenland
5. On Dialogical Networks: Arguments about the Migration
Law in Czech Mass Media in 1993
6. On Membership Categorisation: Us,
Themand Doing Violence in Political Discourse
7. Reflection 2: On
Historical Contextualisations in Dialogical Networks Project
8. The War on
Terror and Muslim Britons Safety: A Week in the Life of a Dialogical Network
9. Reflection 3: Continuities, Novelties and Dissociations
10. Practical
Historians and Adversaries: 9/11 Revisited
11. A Day in the Life of a
Dialogical Network The Case of Czech Currency Devaluation
12. Reflection 4:
Multiplication and Emergent Meanings
13. Conclusion
Ivan Leudar is Emeritus Professor of Historical Psychology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity and co-editor of Against Theory of Mind and Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy.
Jií Nekvapil is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. His research has been influenced by poststructuralist linguistics and ethnomethodology.